14 Months & Growing Up So Fast

It's crazy to me how much she picks up on and how easily she remembers it all!  She seems like such a big girl now - but I still see the little baby inside her every once in a while.  At 14 months, Miss Ayla Blair:

• Waves her pointer finger back and forth at you when you say "no, no, no" (it's adorable)
• Can say almost everything you ask her to say (but it doesn't sound perfect).  If you start your sentence, "Can you say ______", she'll sure make the effort to say the word you ask of her.
• Does an elephant impersonation!  I have no clue where she learned it.  Daycare says they have never taught her something like this, and neither have Fancy or Grand Dude.  She makes the actual elephant sound and then waves her arm in the air like it's her trunk.  So random, so cute, no clue where she learned it.  It must mean that she's a genius.  hehe 
• Sneaks up behind you and either "gets you", or kisses and hugs you.
• Likes to back up to sit on your lap
• Loves to be read to - her favorites are all four Elmo Nursery Rhyme books, and her Shimmer Easter Book
• Still loves holding stuffed animals, dolls, etc.  She will hold them over her shoulder and pat their backs.  She's her Mamma's girl - got a mothering heart already
• Can make the clicking sound with her tongue on the roof of her mouth
• Likes giving kisses in the bath tub
• I think she's starting to dance - she'll bend her knees like she's going to fall and then bounce up and down.  Sometimes her hands wave in the air too.  (I hope she doesn't get my dance skills)
• Is seriously obsessed with our new neighbors' dogs.  They are big Labrador Retrievers and she wants to go over to pet them daily.  (I'm just glad the neighbors have dogs so that we don't have to get one for her)
• Loves riding in her red wagon
• Is starting to enjoy the swing in the backyard
• Waves, says "Hello", and smiles at every stranger and person she sees - It's very rare that she isn't flirting with the guy behind her in a check-out line.  She always get a smile out of whoever it is
• Blows on her food if we tell her it's hot
• Likes to throw things across the room - she may very well have a varsity pitching arm :-)
• Is beginning to throw fits if she doesn't get what she wants right away - she screams, and sometimes arches her back or throws herself into a sitting position.  If you try to reason with her, then she screams a quick, loud scream over you.  Not really sure how to handle this one because I'm guessing that once she can talk, this will end....but time will only tell!  Fancy says that this is what I did when I was little too - Uh Oh

It's crazy to me that Ayla is such a big girl already.  It kills me to think that she isn't going to be my only baby very soon.  I can't imagine it not being ALL ABOUT HER.  But at the same time, I'm completely excited to watch her take care of her little baby brother or sister.  She will be so good at it.  For now, she's my "Best Baby", and I love her so incredibly much!!!!